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West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that the First Amendment protects students from being forced to salute the American flag or say the Pledge of Allegiance in public school.
This decision led to increased persecution of Witnesses in the United States. The Supreme Court overruled this decision three years later in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943). [2] Subsequent cases have applied a lower standard of review to generally applicable laws when evaluating free exercise claims; [3] Justice ...
The New York Court held that due to the 1943 case West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette there was general knowledge that there could be no compulsion on students to participate or expose themselves to the Pledge. The Court dismissed Lewis' claims that the pledge was an establishment of religion citing Zorach v.
In brief, we hold that local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books and seek by their removal to "prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion." West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S., at 642 ...
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) - Amicus curiae; Martin v. Struthers; 1944 Korematsu v. United States; Smith v. Allwright; 1946 Hannegan v. Esquire; 1947 Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (1947) - Amicus curiae for Arch R. Everson; 1948 Shelley v. Kraemer
Previous decisions, such as West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, had established that students did have some constitutional protections in public school. This case was the first time that the court set forth standards for safeguarding public school students' free speech rights.
The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district ...
From the last sentence of the Background section: "The West Virginia Supreme Court refused to force the school board from requiring children to salute the flag, which led to the federal lawsuit being filed." The school board 'wanted' to compel students to salute the flag, and was doing so.